"Familiar Faces" By: Silver Nights

Chapter 1

Duo continued his walk to the arcade. He kept looking at the piece of jewelry he found on the sidewalk. He took the cross that hanged from it and looked at his reflection. "Funny, I could have sworn it wasn't there before I met that cat" said Duo talking to himself.

He crossed many streets and turned on different sidewalks until he finally got to the crown arcade. He got a good look at the outside of it. He noticed a poster with a girl dressed in a sailor outfit and wearing a red mask. She had long blonde hair half up with a red bow in the back, fighting some what looked like robbers. "Sailor V.." read Duo. He then walked into the arcade and checked the place out. It seemed pretty decent. It was sort of packed. Duo noticed the shooting games that were in the back. He walked over there and put in his coins and started shooting the bad guys in the game. He was quite good at the game, being that he shot many enemies in his life.

"Wow, look at that guy over there! He's good!" commented a girl watching his shooting skills.

As soon as the girl said that, Duo has a little fan club surrounding him watching him defeat enemies and getting high scores. The crowd was in awe.

"I wonder how he got so good" whispered a boy to one of his friends.

Duo's points were going sky high and the crowd was in shock, no one got a score that high before. Duo was doing great, until he heard a voice that yelled "You're too slow!" and started freaking out. Duo lost his concentration and lost the game he was playing. The audience started to freak out that Duo lost, but Duo looked over to see a girl about his age in a cream colored school uniform, with dark brown hair put up in a ponytail and deep green eyes. Duo couldn't get his eyes off of her, she looked so familiar to him. She was sitting down playing a video with her friend standing next to her. Her friend had long blonde hair, styled in what seemed like pigtails, but had buns on each side of her head that long streamers in the back, with cerulean blue eyes that sparkled.

"It's ok Makoto.." sweat dropped the blonde.

The brunette ignored her and continued to play. Duo was staring at them, "It's like, I've met them before" thought Duo. His thinking was irrupted by two little boys tugging on his arm.

"Hey Mister, can you teach us how you got so good at shooting?" begged the little boys.

Duo gave them a smile and put his own money into the coin slot and a new game started. He gave the two little boys their guns, "Aim for that guy over there, but the trick is to keep your eyes on the target at all times and don't let anything distract you" taught Duo as he got on his knees to match the boys height. The boys were doing pretty good, but not as good as Duo was. Duo couldn't help but glance over to where the two girls were standing. He noticed two more friends came to join them. On had short blue hair and blue eyes, she wore a school uniform with a blue skirt and a red bow on where her chest was, it was exactly the same as the girl with the weird hair style. The other girl had long dark black hair with a tint of purple with dark purple eyes, she looked mysterious, and was wearing a violet colored school uniform, different from the other girls.

"Strange, I felt as if I met all of them before" thought Duo.

Duo looked at his watched and noticed the time, "Alright, I got to go, you boys have fun and remember what I taught you" winked Duo as he left the boys alone and let them play their game.

Duo had to walk through the girls in order to leave the arcade, he paused and looked at the four girls, he over heard them talking.

"This is my new friend, Makoto Kino" introduced the girl with the strange blonde hair.

The two other girls welcomed the new girl and gave her a friendly smile. "I was suppose to go to Rei's house after school today, but someone forget to remind me" grunted the blonde.

"Usagi! I call you this morning and you told me you were wide awake!" yelled the girl with the black hair.

"You actually believed me?" yelled back the blonde with the odd hair.

Duo's eyes got big as he heard the two girls fighting, he sighed and decided to just make his way through them. The girl with the black hair named Rei was yelling at the girl with the strange hair style, Usagi. As Duo walked past Usagi, he felt a strange connection.

"Usagi! I shouldn't remind you to do things that you should be responsible! God, why can't you grow up!" barked Rei as she continued to yell at her friend.

As Duo walked past Usagi, Usagi felt a strange connection as well, "That guy, its like I know him from somewhere" thought Usagi.

"Usagi! Are you listening to me!" yelled Rei, "You idiot! You always space out like this!"

Usagi watched Duo leave the arcade from the window. He was all dressed in black, wearing a priest outfit, a black hat, and a black watch, and a very long chestnut brown hair that was done in a long braid. "Could he be Tuxedo Mask?" thought Usagi again.

"Do you want me to smack you!" screamed Rei as the whole arcade looked to see what was going on.

Usagi blinked and shook her head, "I'm sorry Rei, I'll try to be more responsible"

Rei's eyes got big and a shocked face, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine, why?" smiled Usagi.

Rei and her friend with the blue hair, known as Ami sighed, "Don't mind them Makoto, they're always fighting"

Makoto noticed the black cat with the crescent moon symbol in the middle of her forehead, "Awe, aren't you a pretty cat" babied Makoto as she started to pet the cat.

Ami got a funny feeling about Makoto as she was petting the cat. Near by, they heard commotion of a large crown surrounding one of those stuffed animal machines. A guy wearing black glasses and a blue baseball cap, and orange jacket was winning all different kinds of stuffed animals.

Usagi and Makoto walked over there, "Wow who's playing?" asked Usagi.

One of Usagi's friends from school told Makoto and Usagi that he has the nickname of 'Game Machine Joe' and he gives the prizes to poor kids with no toys. Makoto was blushing and started to fall for the guy known as 'Game Machine Joe'. Usagi sighed and looked out the window thinking about the strange feeling she got when she saw that guy.
"He must be Tuxedo Mask! Oh I hope I see that guy again" she thought silently.